Descrição:
Hunter-gatherers in history, archaeology and anthropology : introductory essay / Meaning of 'hunter-gatherers' and modes of subsistence : a comparative historical perspective / Hunting-and-gathering society : an eighteenth-century Scottish invention / Edward Westermarck and the origin of moral ideas / Anthropological history and the study of hunters and gatherers : cultural and non-cultural / No escape from being theoretically important : hunter-gatherers in German-language debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Hunter-gatherer studies in Russia and the Soviet Union / Soviet traditions in the study of Siberian hunter-gatherer society / Japanese tradition in central African hunter-gatherer studies, with comparative observations on the French and American traditions / Modern history of Japanese studies on the San hunter-gatherers / Down ancient trails : hunter-gatherers in Indian archaeology / Many ages of Star Carr : do 'cites' make the 'site'? / Ethnographic models, archaeological data, and the applicability of modern foraging theory / Subtle shifts and radical transformations in hunter-gatherer research in American anthropology : Julian Steward's contributions and achievements / Anthropology and Indigenous rights in Canada and the United States : implications in Steward's theoretical project / Hunting for histories : rethinking historicity in the western Kalahari / (Re- )current doubts on hunter-gatherer studies as contemporary history /This book provides an overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? How does current thinking on the subject reflect trends within the social sciences?